BEST project, alleged doubling of trend by NOAA Anthony Watts (blogger)

in march 2011 watts visited berkeley earth temperature project (best), , said m prepared accept whatever result produce, if proves premise wrong. in october project released data , draft of paper produced results supporting existing scientific consensus. watts said methodology flawed, complaining best study analyzed larger period own research, , not yet peer reviewed. richard a. muller, founder of best, later said study directly addressed watts concern condition of weather stations; discovered station quality not affect results. poor stations reflected temperature changes accurately.

around 22 july 2012, watts heard best project release further material, , decided release paper , evan jones had been working on year. on 27 july blogged wuwt suspended until noon on 29 july: major announcement coming . new york times published summary of further draft results best, including announcement muller study showed humans entirely cause of warming. shortly afterwards, watts announced own team s draft paper said reported temperature rises had been spuriously doubled , , made serious accusation noaa had inflated rate erroneous adjustments data. climate scientists , other bloggers found flaws in paper. steve mcintyre, watts had named co-author, stressed involvement had been last minute , limited . agreed criticisms including point watts had failed correct time of observation bias, , noted independent satellite temperature measurements closer noaa figures.

in 2012 best released series of peer-reviewed papers confirming previous results surface temperature rising.